…and now has roughly 15 high school and middle school students volunteering as “unified buddies” with the 10 Special Olympics athletes. For eight weeks, in January and February, students head…
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It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks
A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection…
Meal options for students during school closure
Schools continue to think outside the box with meal delivery as well as pick up during this extended school closure. Franklin County Technical School, with the help of FM Kuzmeskus…
Easthampton Students Dig Into Pepin School History
…brand new building, Mountain View School, the following fall. They wanted to record important school and town history before the buildings were abandoned and the sounds of children playing at…
Franklin Tech to open nursing simulation lab next school year
…and in Franklin County,” noted Franklin Tech Superintendent Richard Martin. Franklin Tech also expects to eventually use the lab for evening classes for students to earn a practical nursing certification…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…also encouraged to read their poems to family members at home. This year, most of those activities were interrupted by the school closures resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. So, Sheffield…
Caps and gowns to make a statement at Turners Falls
…the school committee members present for the vote Tuesday. Turners joins other schools in Franklin County with gender-neutral gowns, including Greenfield, Mohawk, Frontier, Mahar and Franklin County Technical School. Pioneer…
Orange pushing ahead for more state school aid
…one, Orange would ask for about $700,000 more for its elementary schools and $600,000 more for the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School. It would slowly close the gap between what…
‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.
…Guatemala when she was 15. Her father was already here, processing fish for Finicky Pet Food, and Cuin started working with him, feeding fish into a machine 12 hours a…
Drawing attention: Author-illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka visits Norris Elementary School
…grade. As students sat in the school’s library on Friday morning, Krosoczka used a projector to show pictures of “The Owl Who Thought He Was the Best Flyer,” which he…